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Beau Leech and Sarah Edwards were married at Oxford Church on Saturday afternoon, July 22. After the ceremony they traveled to their reception in a big shiny John Deere tractor. Congratulations and best wishes to Beau and Sarah.

The Hall family reunion was held Sunday, July 16, at the Palmer Community Center. Sixty descendants of William Merset and Sadie Belle Deacon Hall registered at the annual family gathering and covered-dish picnic. In addition to local residents, Virginia family members came from Front Royal, Glen Allen, Goshen, Herndon, Lexington, Natural Bridge Station, Salem, and White Post.

Honest Labor At Boxerwood Friday

Jaden Nelson of Buena Vista has been awarded a Fellowship worth $8,500 by The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. Nelson is one of 62 recipients nationwide to receive a Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship.

Rockbridge Regional Library System cardholders can now pick up reserved library materials any time of day at a new locker for materials on hold at the Fairfield Volunteer Rescue Squad building. Bookmobile service will continue at Dottie’s Market each Thursday from 2 to 4 p.m. Area residents should choose “Fairfield lockers” as the pickup location when placing a hold from the library’s website or mobile app. Once notified that the hold is available, visit the locker, scan your library card barcode or enter the number using the keyboard icon on the screen, and the locker will open. Books can be returned without a library card in a locker marked “returns.” For any assistance or more information, call the library at (540) 463-4324 or email [email protected].

(630) 607-9938 [email protected] Nathan and Lora Welsh will talk about their mission work in Albania Sunday, Aug. 13, at 4 p.m. at New Monmouth Presbyterian Church. The community is invited to come for their presentation and stay for a fried chicken dinner. Nathan is the son of Tim and Janeen Welsh, and we are delighted to have Nathan return to our community to share about the work they’ve been doing and to partner with Nathan and Lora in their continuing ministry. If possible, please RSVP to newmounmouthpres@ gmail. com so we can have an idea of numbers for the meal. Church members are invited to bring fruit or a dessert to share.

Lexington Mayor Frank Friedman, members of the Chamber of Commerce and about 20 local historians met Tuesday, July 18, at Timber Ridge Presbyterian Church for a ribbon cutting to dedicate the new Timber Grove Highway marker, which commemorates the first settlement in what would become Rockbridge County. Only a graveyard remains of the settlement, a few miles north of Timber Ridge. Since no parking or public access exists at the Timber Grove Cemetery, the sign is located at the Timber Ridge Presbyterian Church. As late as 1920, a log building stood beside the old cemetery, but today only the graveyard remains.

Rockbridge County High School Group Tours Italy, Greece This Summer

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Firefighters’ Tug Of War, Music Among Activities

An illustrated history of Vesuvius is the newest “Rockbridge Epilogue.”

Bring your chairs and family and join with old friends, neighbors and friends you haven’t met yet at the Locher Pavilion this Saturday and enjoy some music with Jason Hostetter. Gates open at 5 p.m., music begins at 6. Food and drinks will be available for sale. Turn on 9th Street, next to Scottos.

Ben Nicely was the guest speaker at Oxford Presbyterian Church on Sunday, July 16. William Hughes was the pianist.

Widow Reflects On Husband’s Volunteer Efforts

‘No Need To Duck Now, Dale’

Four courses focusing on professional trades and industry have been scheduled by the Mountain Gateway Community College Division of Workforce Solutions and Community Education this fall.

Carbon credits, nutrient banking and wetlands off-sets are among a set of “ecological services” around which a private industry market continues to evolve. Landowners prepared to commit selected portions of their land for 10 years or longer may have an opportunity to realize income from their land in these alternative markets.

Miss Rockbridge Regional Fair 2022, Sofia Fleming, as a sixth-generation American farmer, felt that it was natural to drive her family‘s decorated tractor in the Happy Birthday America Parade in Staunton on the Fourth of July. The creativity and unusualness of a pageant queen driving a tractor caught the attention of the crowd and the judges. She won the Extraordinaire Award - The Most Outstanding Parade Entry. The deadline for entering this year’s Miss Rockbridge Fair Pageant, scheduled for Aug. 5 at RCHS, is July 28. Information can be found on the fair’s website or by sending an email to [email protected]. (Valerie Fleming photo)

The Rockbridge Baths Community Association will be holding its annual summer picnic and potluck on Saturday, July 29, from 4 to 7 p.m., at the riverside, 99 McCurdy Lane, Rockbridge Baths.